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...allowing us to travel with greater speed, freedom and whim than our ancestors could ever have imagined, the Interstates changed how we experience movement through space and time. Not so long ago, when family vacations entailed days poking along in slow-moving cars on even slower roads, the journey ranked almost as high as the destination. To relieve the tedium, Dad made regular stops at places that now seem hopelessly quaint - alligator wrestling joints, tourist cabins, and dinosaur-themed miniature golf-courses...
...other, The Devil Wears Prada--in which Streep plays Miranda Priestley, the titular infernal being, whose every whim (coffee at a certain temperature, bouquets with no freesias) is attended to as if it were Shari'a law--might fare better. The book was written by a former assistant to Anna Wintour, the longtime editor of Vogue. There's a certain irresistibility to the grande dame of film portraying the grande dame of fashion. Streep sees it. "Whenever I said, 'I'm thinking about doing this thing,' everyone's reaction was, Oh, yesss! Sort of gleeful and venomous," she says. "That...
...training. According to Harvard College Professor and Professor of Psychology Daniel Gilbert’s book “Stumbling on Happiness,” we are often happiest when we make a decision on the fly and it is irreversible. Hence, a student who decides on a whim to sign up for the Marines and becomes legally obligated to perform four years of service will most likely be happier than the student who spends months agonizing over job choices and finally chooses the one with the highest pay with an option to quit whenever he wants. In other words...
...love at first sight,” Cuse says of Christiane, whom he married four years after graduation. According to Christiane, they began dating freshman year up until the end of that summer. The two rekindled their relationship after graduation.Christiane recalls how she and Cuse once decided on a whim in the spring of their junior year to jump off the Weeks Footbridge together.“We were just walking and talking, and we just kind of dared each other—we just did it,” she laughingly says.But the jump would put a halt...
...nothing else, my time at Harvard has been defined by the random curveball, the unanticipated twist. Mark and I had joked about dognapping Handsome Dan but acted on a whim that succeeded only by chance, then fell through thanks to more of the same. I met one of my best friends two days into freshman week in line at University Health Services, an introduction made possible only because I saw myself as a future rower in need of medical clearance, and she wrongly thought she needed a physical to participate in intramurals. I was lucky enough to meet...